Trundle-bed.



No. 686,550. Patented Nov. l2. mm.

C. SIMMONS.

TRUNDLE BED.

(Application filed Mar. 19, 1901.) (No Model.)

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, shows a modification of the parts represented CHARLES SIMMONS, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

TRUNDLE-BED,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,550, dated November 12, 1901.

Serial No. 51,827. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES SIMMONS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Trundle-Beds; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to that class of beds which are designed to be pushed under other beds when not in service to economize space and for concealment.

Heretofore very low beds to run on rollers at all four corners and called trundle-beds have been used; but they were too low to pass over chamber-ware, and it was difficult to roll one straight under-the larger bed. Beds have also been provided with cleats along their sides or ends to slide upon pendent cleats beneath larger beds, thus being duly raised from the floor; but legs have to be provided to support the outer edge of such asliding bed when in service, and heretofore the said outer edge had to be lifted by the operator to keep the legs from interfering with the sliding movement by dragging on the floor, and if the bed were lifted alittle too high when partly drawn out it would be cramped and stopped in the sliding bearings, thus requiring some skill and patience to do a very simple thing.

The object of this invention is to adapt a trundle-bed to roll at its outer edge upon the floor and at its inner edge upon the other bed, so that it will ro1l.with entire freedom at both edges, be held as high as possible above the fioor, and be guided to its place under the larger bed and be maintained in the same position relative thereto, even though the larger bed be moved for sweeping, &c.

To this end my invention consists in the construction and combination of parts forming a trundle-bed hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure I is an end view, partly in transverse vertical section, of a common bed and a trundle-bed adapted to coact according to my invention. Fig; II represents a vertical section transverse to the slats and longitudinal with the bedstead at line 00 of Fig. I. Fig. III

in Fig. II. Fig. IV is a perspective View of a corner of the frame of the trundle-bed.

Let numeral 5 represent any usual bedstead having side rails 6, adapted to support the ends of slats 7. For the purposes of this in- ;Vention I provide the slats 7 in pairs, each slat having a ledge or rollway 8, upon which a pair of rollers 9 may travel. These rollers are journaled to revolve upon the T-head of a hanger-bolt 13, which passes down through the frame 10 of the trundle-bed and is provided with screw-nuts l1 and 12, whereby the height of the trundle-bed may be adjusted and rigidly secured upon the hanger. At the opposite or outer edge of the frame 10 I provide legs in two parts 14 15, one of which telescopes into the other, and a binding-screw 16 for securing the parts of the leg rigidly together when adjusted to correspond with the hanger, so that the trundle-bed may be as high as possible from the floor and carry a mattress of the desired thickness under the large bed.

At one edge of the trundle-bed the hangers 13 are its supports, and at the other edge the legs 14 15 are its supports. In each case these supports pass through the frame 10 and through a metallic corner-piece 17, which projects as a shelf across the inner angle of the frame for the bed-bottom to rest upon. These shelves being thus rigidly secured to the frame serve as safe supports to the bed-bottom with any load that it is required to carry, and being secured to the frame at some distance from'the angle also these shelf-plates serve as corner-braces to stiffen the frame against lateral strains.

The legs of the larger bed may or may not be provided with casters 19; but the casters 20 are necessary to the trundle-bed, first, in order that it may be rolled out and in under the larger bed without its outer edge being lifted, and, secondly, in order that the trundle-bed may roll freely with the larger bed when being moved for sweeping, &c. The legs are made to telescope in order that the trundle-bed may be set level orat any desired slant, either toward or away from the larger bed.

The modification shown in Fig. III represents a single slat 21, provided with ledges or rollways 22, made of metal, for the rollers 9 to travel upon. With this suggestion it is evident how an gle-iron may be adapted for rollways for iron bedsteads.

23 represents side guides depending from the edge of the large-bed rail 6 to keep the trundle-bed in line with the larger bed when the trundle-bed is being pushed under the larger bed and to keep the trundle-bed in place when the larger bed is moved.

It is evident that the slats or rollways might be attached to the under side of a table, a bench, or any ornamental piece of furniture of suflicient size as well as to the larger bed described. I shall therefore use the word bedstead in the following claim to represent anything, either fixed or movable, that can similarly support the rollways and the pendent guides 23.

The shelves 17 being each supported directly upon either a hanger or a leg, the bed proper and its load are sustained almost independently of the frame 10, and the latter having little more service than to keep the corner-shelves from being spread apart may be very light with safety.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I believe to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

The combination in the trundle-bed, of a bed-frame; hangers for one edge thereof comprising each a T-headed screw-bolt, rollers journaled on the arms of the T-head and screw-nuts threaded upon the body of the bolt; rollways adapted for attachment to a bedstead and fitted for the aforesaid rollers to travel upon; a pair of legs for the other edge of the trundle-bed frame, each leg provided with a caster-roller and having means for longitudinal adjustment, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES SIMMONS.

Witnesses:

W. C, BRooKs, J. E. WARNOCH. 

